Dead & Company, Noah Kahan, Maren Morris & More on Lineup for MusiCares Persons of the Year Event Honoring the Grateful Dead

The lineup for the 2025 MusiCares Person of the Year benefit gala held in tribute to the Grateful Dead in Los Angeles has been revealed.

On Monday (Jan. 20), The Hollywood Reporter announced the artists attached to the Grammy Week event scheduled for Jan. 31 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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Dead & Company (which includes Grateful Dead co-founders Bob Weir and Mickey Hart), John Mayer, Mick Fleetwood with Stewart Copeland, Norah Jones, Maren Morris, Noah Kahan, Vampire Weekend, Sierra Farrell and Lukas Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Billy Strings, My Morning Jacket, Sammy Hagar, the War and Treaty and the War on Drugs are set for the event, as well as previous Grateful Dead collaborator Bruce Hornsby. Andy Cohen will be the MC.

Original Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir will be recognized for their contributions to music, their philanthropic efforts and the group’s pioneering role in fostering communities through their concerts and activism. Two of the band’s founding members, the late Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh, who passed away in October, will be honored posthumously.

The Grateful Dead is the third band to receive the honor, following Fleetwood Mac (2018) and Aerosmith (2020). The esteemed list of MusiCares Person of the Year honorees also includes Jon Bon Jovi, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton, Tom Petty, Lionel Richie, Bob Dylan, Carole King, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, Don Henley, James Taylor, Brian Wilson, Sting, Bono, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Luciano Pavarotti, Phil Collins, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, Gloria Estefan, Natalie Cole, Bonnie Raitt and David Crosby.

It was confirmed that the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year event will go on as planned last week, amid the wildfires that have devastated the Los Angeles area. The announcement came a day after the Recording Academy said the Grammys are still on for Feb. 2.

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“Your attendance at Persons of the Year and your ongoing generosity will support these continued vital efforts, helping those in urgent need and signaling to the world that this vibrant city is on its feet,” MusiCares said in a statement. “At our upcoming Persons of the Year, we will make a special appeal for donations to support our wildfire relief efforts. We invite you to join us in spreading the word to your friends and family by sharing this link: www.musicares.org/FireRelief.”

Since 1991, the MusiCares Person of the Year gala has raised funds to support MusiCares’ health and human services programs, which offer physical and mental health care, addiction recovery, preventive clinics, unforeseen personal emergencies and disaster relief to music professionals.

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Chappell Roan Says She’d Be More Successful If She ‘Wore a Muzzle’

Chappell Roan is opening up about how speaking out against “creepy behavior” has impacted her career.

In a new interview with the BBC, published Sunday (Jan. 19), the 26-year-old pop star discussed her decision to stand up for herself despite being labeled by some as a “spoiled diva” or accused of throwing “tantrums” about her privacy.

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The “Good Luck, Babe!” singer has previously spoken about her experiences with “predatory behavior” from fans on social media. She explained that after years of hard work building her music career, she’s had to set clear boundaries to protect herself from uncomfortable and often invasive interactions.

“I’ve been responding that way to disrespect my whole life — but now there are cameras on me, and I also happen to be a pop star, and those things don’t match,” Roan told the BBC. “It’s like oil and water.”

In October 2024, Roan went viral after confronting a photographer who had previously made her feel uncomfortable on the red carpet at the premiere of Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour film in Los Angeles. She had a similar experience with another photographer at the 2024 MTV VMAs.

The “Red Wine Supernova” artist admitted that her outspoken nature has had consequences for her career.

“I think, actually, I’d be more successful if I was okay wearing a muzzle,” she said. “If I were to override more of my basic instincts, where my heart is going, ‘Stop, stop, stop, you’re not okay’, I would be bigger.”

She added, “I would be way bigger … And I would still be on tour right now.”

Last fall, Roan decided not to extend her tour and instead focused on her physical and mental health. The artist credits her grandfather for giving her valuable advice that guides her decisions.

“There’s something he said that I think about in every move I make with my career. There are always options,” Roan shared with BBC. “So when someone says, ‘Do this concert because you’ll never get offered that much money ever again,’ it’s like, who cares? If I don’t feel like doing this right now, there are always options. There is not a scarcity of opportunity. I think about that all the time.”

Roan, who was named Billboard’s Top New Artist of 2024 and is nominated for six Grammys, rose to fame with her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in October 2024. The album spawned multiple charting singles, including “Pink Pony Club,” “Casual” and “Good Luck, Babe!”

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Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, No Doubt & More Stars Join FireAid Benefit Concert for L.A. Wildfire Victims

Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, No Doubt and more stars are on the lineup for FireAid, the Jan. 30 benefit concert that has expanded from the Intuit Dome to also include the Kia Forum to support victims of the ongoing wildfire crisis that has devastated the Los Angeles area.

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Katy Perry, Jelly Roll, Tate McRae, Rod Stewart, Sting and Stevie Nicks are also locked in for the charity showcase. Also on the bill are the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Earth, Wind & Fire, Green Day, Gracie Abrams, Joni Mitchell, Lil Baby, P!nk, Stephen Stills. Sunday night (Jan. 19), Alanis Morissette, Anderson .Paak, Dawes, Graham Nash, John Fogerty, Peso Pluma, Stevie Wonder and The Black Crowes were added to the Jan. 30 concert lineup.

Earlier on Sunday organizers revealed Olivia Rodrigo, who closed her massively successful Guts World Tour in October 2024, would be joining the previously announced lineup. The day before, No Doubt was added; Gwen Stefani had originally been listed as a solo performer. The band’s upcoming L.A. performance follows their highly anticipated reunion at Coachella in April 2024, which marked their first show together since 2015.

Hosted in partnership between Live Nation, AEG and the Azoff family, FireAid will be broadcast by select AMC Theatres, Apple Music and the Apple TV App, Max, iHeartRadio, KTLA+, Netflix/Tudum, Paramount+, Prime Video and the Amazon Music Channel on Twitch, SiriusXM, Spotify, SoundCloud, Veeps, and YouTube. Viewers will be able to contribute to the fundraiser as they watch.

The event, sponsored by American Express, Intuit, and UBS, will start at 6 p.m. PT and tickets go on sale Wednesday, Jan. 22, at noon PT via Ticketmaster.

Plans for the FireAid concert were first first announced Jan. 10. Billed as an “an evening of music and solidarity,” proceeds from the concerts will be distributed with the help of the Annenberg Foundation, and will span creating an organization to rebuild Los Angeles’s infrastructure, supporting displaced families, and preventing future fire disasters. All costs of the event will be covered by the LA Clippers, who play at the Intuit Dome.

The news of the lineup comes more than a week after dangerous fires first broke out in Pacific Palisades — after which more blazes emerged and spread rapidly through other parts of the city — burning countless structures and forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate their homes for safety reasons. At least 25 people have died so far in the destruction, CNN reports.

The concert is just one of many ways the music industry has stepped up to support victims of the fires amid the crisis. ASCAP, Guitar Center Music Foundation, MusiCares, the Recording Academy and more organizations have busied themselves with the creation of emergency funds and resources for those affected, while Beyoncé’s BeyGood Foundation, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group and more have made sizable donations to the cause.

The entertainment industry has been hit particularly hard by the catastrophe, as numerous executives and artists — including stars such as Jhené Aiko, Mandy Moore and Tina Knowles — have reported losing their homes, studios and recording equipment to the fires. Several events in the area have also been canceled, including most Grammy week gatherings (the actual awards are still expected to go on as scheduled Feb. 2), while the Critics Choice Awards have been postponed to Jan. 26.

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Bob Dylan’s Original Lyrics to ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ Sell for Over $500K

Almost 60 years to the day since it was first recorded, the original lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” have sold at auction for a total of $508,000.

The lyrics were sold via Julien’s Auctions alongside a number of other Dylan items – including a signed oil painting and numerous pieces of original art – which were originally part of the personal collection of late American journalist Al Aronowitz. Famed for introducing Dylan to The Beatles in 1964 and for being the first manager of The Velvet Underground, Aronowitz spoke about his unique connection to “Mr. Tambourine Man” in a 1973 article – of which an original version was included in the sale.

Explained Aronowitz: “Bob Dylan wrote ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ one night in my house in Berkeley Heights, N.J., sitting with my portable typewriter at my white formica breakfast bar in a swirl of chain-lit cigaret [sic] smoke, his bony, long-nailed fingers tapping the words out on my stolen, canary-colored Saturday Evening Post copy paper while the whole time, over and over again, Marvin Gaye sang ‘Can I Get a Witness?’ from the 6-foot speakers of my hi-fi in the room next to where he was, with Bob getting up from the typewriter each time the record finished in order to put the needle back at the start.”

“At the breakfast bar I found a waste basket full of crumpled false starts,” added Aronowitz. “I took it out the side door to empty it into the trash can when a whispering emotion caught me, like a breeze that sometimes gently stops you cold just because of its own ghostly power to make you notice it. I took the crumpled sheets, smoothed them out, read the crazy leaping lines, smiled to myself at the leaps that never landed and then put the sheets into a file folder. I still have them somewhere.”

The lyrics as sold made up two pages of yellow paper which contained three progressive drafts of the lyrics, typewritten and providing an insight into Dylan’s writing process. The lyrics are believed to date back to March of 1964, based upon the information available.

Dylan first began performing “Mr. Tambourine Man” privately in 1964, eventually recording the track as part of a number of takes on Jan. 15, 1965. The song was later included as the first song on the acoustic side to Dylan’s fifth album, Bringing It All Back Home, in April 1965.

Though “Subterranean Homesick Blues” from the same album was Dylan’s first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, “Mr. Tambourine Man” would become his first to top the chart, albeit when The Byrds released a cover as their debut single that same month.

The sale of the lyrics is just another Dylan-related happening in recent months, with the venerated artist’s profile and legacy being thrust into the public eye as a result of James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown biopic. The wider response to the biopic has been widespread and immense, with Dylan seeing his catalog earn 11.6 million U.S. on-demand streams in the week ending Dec. 26.

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Matty Healy Reacts to Report He’ll ‘Get Everything Off His Chest’ About Taylor Swift Relationship on The 1975’s Next Album

Matty Healy and Taylor Swift‘s musical story still has pages to come, according to a report by U.K. tabloid The Sun. The 1975‘s next album, possibly titled God Has Entered My Body and maybe with a track of the same name, has lyrics that an unnamed “insider” believes to be about the pair’s public romance in 2023.

Just one alleged line was published in the report Saturday night (Jan. 18): “Keep your head up, princess, your tiara is falling.”

The Sun quotes its source as saying “everyone at the studio,” presumably during a 1975 recording session, thought “God Has Entered My Body” addresses Healy and Swift’s relationship and how it fared amid fame. The purported insider tells the publication, “Matty will never publicly comment on his relationships, but he lets his deepest feelings out in his songs and gets everything off his chest.”

Healy is not doing press at this time and is not currently active on social media, but he does have a verified account on Reddit from which he occasionally interacts with fans of The 1975.

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In a discussion on The 1975 subreddit on Sunday showing an article that cites The Sun‘s initial report, Healy chimed in among the murmurs about his supposedly Swift-inspired song.

“Huge if true,” wrote Healy.

As fans point out, The 1975 frontman captioned an unarchived Instagram post from 2021 with “Keep your head up, princess, your tiara is falling.” It’s one of only four posts presently on his Instagram grid. Another studio snapshot from 2024 has the caption “GHEMB,” an acronym for “God Has Entered My Body” that Healy’s used before.

In November, Healy shared what looked to be a working track list in a now-deleted post on X (formerly Twitter). While he made a joke there (“This is my ‘names for our children’ folder”), in a Reddit thread he commented, “Nah it’s real tracklist.” Among the song titles listed were “Alone Together,” “Give Us Back Our Present,” “Commercials in a Hotel Room,” “EVERYTHINGAMAZINGNOBODYHAPPY,” “Pepsi-Cola Addict” and “Naked When You Found Her.” “God Has Entered My Body” was not on that particular list.

The 1975’s next full-length release will be their sixth studio album, and the follow-up to 2022’s Being Funny in a Foreign Language, which was co-produced by Jack Antonoff with Healy and bandmate George Daniel. Being Funny debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums chart, at No. 7, and reached No. 2 on three others: Top Rock Albums, Top Alternative Albums and Independent Albums.

In 2024, Healy was featured on his friend (and George Daniel’s fiancée) Charli XCX‘s Brat companion album, Brat and It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat, on the moving song “I Might Say Something Stupid.”

Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department album, for which Healy was an assumed muse, was released in 2024 and finished the year as the most popular album in the U.S., based on music data tracking from Luminate. It earned 6.955 million equivalent album units in 2024 in the U.S. and spent 17 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

A longtime friend to Healy, Swift surprised fans at The 1975’s concert at the O2 Arena in London in January 2023 when she covered the band’s “The City” and debuted her Midnights single “Anti-Hero” live. They’d known each other since at least 2014, when Swift attended The 1975’s concerts in Los Angeles and New York.

Speculation that they were dating in 2023 came in early May that year. Healy was seen smiling and singing along to her hits from the VIP tent at several shows on The Eras Tour — and even unexpectedly took the Eras stage in a skeleton suit to play guitar with friend/opener Phoebe Bridgers.

Healy and Swift were spotted holding hands at a dinner and leaving the studio together in New York that month, which was as close to a “confirmation” of a relationship as they gave. In the middle of a rainstorm at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., on May 20, Swift shared with the crowd, “I’ve just never been this happy in my life, in all aspects of my life, ever, and I just want to thank you for being a part of that. It’s not just the tour. I just sort of feel like my life finally feels like it makes sense.” She then said, “So I thought I’d play this song which brings me a lot of happy memories,” and played Midnights track “Question…?” for the first time.

They reportedly split in June 2023.

Healy, who recently said he isn’t interested in making an album about “stuff that was said about me or my casual romantic liaisons,” is now engaged to model Gabbriette Bechtel. Swift is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

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‘Wicked’ Is Now the Top-Grossing Film Adaptation of a Broadway Musical: Full List

UPDATE (Jan. 19): Wicked just keeps adding to its record-setting tally at the boxoffice. As of Jan. 19, it has grossed $709.7 million worldwide. The musical is likely to keep adding to its tally, too, with Oscar nominations due on Jan. 23 and the Oscar telecast set for March 2.

PREVIOUSLY (Dec. 29): It’s official: Wicked has pulled ahead of Mamma Mia! to become the top-grossing film based on a Broadway musical. Wicked has grossed $634.4 million worldwide since it opened on Nov. 22. Mamma Mia! grossed $611.5 million worldwide following its release in June 2008.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo star in Wicked, which was directed by Jon M. Chu, whose hit-studded résumé includes a previous film adaptation of a Broadway musical, the 2021 movie version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s breakout hit In the Heights.

Seven film adaptations of Broadway musicals appear on Box Office Mojo’s list of the top 1,000 films in terms of their lifetime worldwide grosses. That counts Mamma Mia!, a film adaptation of the 2001 stage musical built around ABBA music, but not its Cher-featuring sequel Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, on the grounds that the latter was really just a sequel to a hit movie. (The sequel did astonishingly well, with a worldwide gross of $395.6 million.) Of course, not all sequels are guaranteed to become box-office successes. Grease is here, but its 1982 sequel, Grease 2, which grossed just $15 million worldwide, didn’t come close.

Wicked: For Good, previously referred to by the generic title Wicked Part Two, is due for release on Nov. 21, 2025. Will it follow its predecessor to box-office glory? If it does, Chu will join Rob Marshall as the only director with two films on this list; Marshall directed both Chicago and Into the Woods.

You might surmise that both Wicked and Mamma Mia! must have won the Tony for best musical when they played on Broadway. Actually, neither one did. Wicked lost to Avenue Q in 2004. Mamma Mia! lost to Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002.

Only two of the seven musical-to-film transfers on this list won the Tony for best musical when they played on Broadway. Les Misérables won in 1987. Hairspray won in 2003. Of the other three, Grease lost in 1972 to Two Gentlemen of Verona, Chicago lost in 1976 to A Chorus Line. Into the Woods lost in 1988 to The Phantom of the Opera.

One disclaimer about this list right at the top: You can’t easily compare box-office grosses of films from different eras. The biggest blockbusters of earlier eras simply can’t match the grosses of today’s hits. (It’s not just your imagination that ticket prices are much higher than they used to be.) The Sound of Music has grossed $159.5 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo — not enough to make their list of 1,000 top-grossing films. But that 1965 adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical is one of the biggest hits in film history.

Other film adaptations of Broadway musicals that have grossed more than $50 million worldwide, but not enough to make the list, include Dreamgirls ($155.5 million), the 2021 version of West Side Story ($76 million), My Fair Lady ($72.7 million) and Funny Girl ($52.2 million).

Here are the seven top-grossing film adaptations of Broadway musicals in terms of lifetime worldwide grosses.

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Justin Bieber Appears to Be Recording Music Again in New Instagram Photos

Will 2025 bring a new Justin Bieber album? Mixed in among Bieber’s weekend Instagram photos of wildlife, ice skating with wife Hailey, and frolicking in a snowy landscape in only underwear are new images of the singer apparently recording music.

Bieber uploaded a couple pictures of himself singing with headphones on and mic in hand in a post on Saturday (Jan. 18). Photographer Rory Kramer, who’s been credited on all of the pop star’s most recent pictures on Instagram, was tagged on the post.

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The visual preview hinting at potential music in the works comes just a few days after Bieber shared a 24-second clip of a track. In a short recording posted on Jan. 15, which sounded like a demo, he was heard singing lines that sounded like “B—- I’m takin’ bait/ I’m takin’ it/ You takin’ bait/ I’m shakin’ it/ You’re shakin’ it/ Shakin’ off the hate,” with raspy vocals accompanied by spare acoustic guitar.

Bieber also posted some photos from what also looked to be a studio session — where he was seen with a keyboard and mic — back in October, just a few weeks after fellow artist Mk.gee mentioned to the New York Times that he’d been in the studio with him.

“He’s searching. Anything that comes out of his mouth: That’s pop music. You can really do pretty wild stuff behind that, just because it represents something,” Mk.gee said at the time.

A new album release from Bieber would be his first since 2021’s Justice, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in March of that year. Justice brought tracks including lead single “Holy” with Chance the Rapper, which peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100, and the No. 1 hit “Peaches” with Daniel Caesar and Giveon.

His most recent single was 2022 one-off “Honest,” which featured Don Toliver.

In 2023, Bieber was a featured artist on Toliver’s track “Private Landing” with Future. He also sang with SZA on an acoustic version of “Snooze.”

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How Well Does John Legend Know Luna and Miles’ ‘Favorite Things’? Watch His Kids Quiz Him in Billboard Family’s Game

John Legend thought his daughter Luna’s favorite singer was Sabrina Carpenter. He was wrong.

The Short n’ Sweet pop star actually ranks at No. 2 for the 8-year-old, Legend learned in a round of “Our Favorite Things” with Luna and her 6-year-old brother, Miles. The very first episode of the Billboard Family game, featuring Legend quizzed by his two eldest children, is premiering now but was filmed in late 2024 — when Luna also led a one-on-one interview with her dad about his children’s album, My Favorite Dream.

“Favorite singers?” Luna asks her father during the game, in the video that’s seen above.

“Right now your favorite is Sabrina Carpenter,” Legend says, only for Luna to refute his response.

“How is that incorrect? Because I am in the car when you’re picking songs,” he says to his daughter.

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He’s wrong because her favorite singer is Dad, of course. (Cue the heart-eyes and smiling-with-tears-in-your-eyes emojis as you watch her quietly point at him.)

“Awww. OK. You just melted my heart,” the “L.O.V.E.” singer says in the clip of the family game.

Legend then correctly identifies some of Miles’ favorite music artists: Zedd, Marshmello and The Chainsmokers.

“He’s very into DJs,” Legend says, joking, “I think he wants to do a Vegas residency at some point.”

The sweet game also has Legend answering questions about Luna and Miles’ favorite hobbies, things to do together with Dad, TV shows, books and meals. Stick around until the end of the video to see what scores they give their superstar parent.

Plus, Legend — who has two more kids, 2-year-old Esti and 1-year-old Wren, with wife Chrissy Teigen — is tested on his children’s favorite songs from his own album My Favorite Dream, which is nominated for best children’s album in the 2025 Grammy Awards, among good company: Lucky Diaz and The Family Jam Band’s Brillo, Brillo!, Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats’ Creciendo, Rock for Children’s Solid Rock Revival and Divinity Roxx and Divi Roxx Kids’ World Wide Playdate are also up for the award.

The Grammys will proceed as planned on Feb. 2 at the Crypto.com Arena, and will be telecast on CBS.

Many Los Angeles music events were canceled or postponed due to the wildfires that have devastated communities in the greater L.A. area, but the show “will carry a renewed sense of purpose: raising additional funds to support wildfire relief efforts and honoring the bravery and dedication of first responders who risk their lives to protect ours,” Recording Academy and MusiCares CEO Harvey Mason Jr. and Tammy Hurt, the chair of the academy’s board of trustees, said in a joint statement last week.

Legend and his family were safely able to go back to their L.A. house after evacuating, Teigen shared in an update on Jan. 13, nothing that they were “feeling grateful to be back home.” In addition to sharing resources for fire victims on social media, her brand Cravings made a total of $100,000 in donations to organizations including World Central Kitchen, the YMCA, LA Regional Food Bank and the Red Cross “to support in fulfilling much needed supplies and most importantly – food, to help people begin to recover and rebuild.”

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Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark Share Hugs, High Fives at Chiefs Game

Taylor Swift was joined by the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark to cheer on Travis Kelce and the Chiefs at Saturday’s (Jan. 18) divisional round game in Kansas City, where the Chiefs defeated the Texans.

For at least part of the game, Swift and Clark sat side-by-side in a suite, surrounded by the singer’s dad, Scott, and Kelce’s dad, Ed. Seated right behind Swift was her mom, Andrea. While everyone around her sported Chiefs red, the singer-songwriter stuck to black-and-white Chanel.

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Clips from Saturday’s Kansas City Chiefs vs. Houston Texans game show Swift chatting with Clark, with a hand covering her mouth for privacy. Fans also recorded a moment when the pair high-fived each other after a play, and one when Swift got up to hug Clark.

In November, Clark was spotted attending The Eras Tour at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

In December, Clark said Swift invited her to go to an upcoming Chiefs game. As Time‘s Athlete of the Year of 2024, Clark mentioned in her cover story interview with the magazine that The Tortured Poets Department star had gifted her four bags of Eras merch, and had written in a note that “Trav and I” hoped to catch her play in an Indiana Fever game.

By early January, Clark was a special guest on an episode of Travis and his brother Jason’s podcast, New Heights. She reminisced about Swift’s Eras show, which she was able to see three times, and said, “My mom was begging me to take her. She’s like, ‘I gotta go, like, everybody’s talking about it.’ I’m like, ‘OK, OK’ … Full Swiftie, turned my mom into a full Swiftie now. Good time, good time.”

See Swift and Clark at the Chiefs game in a video posted by the NFL below. “Big Chiefs fans in the building,” the NFL captioned the moment.

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Taylor Swift Brings the Heat to Chiefs-Texans Playoff Game in Chilly Kansas City

Taylor Swift is back in Kansas City to support boyfriend Travis Kelce at the Chiefs’ first playoff game of the season.

On Saturday (Jan. 18), the 35-year-old pop icon was spotted arriving at Arrowhead Stadium for the AFC divisional round matchup between the Chiefs and the Houston Texans. Despite the chilly temperatures, Swift turned up the heat with a stylish checkered coat, paired with a black top, skirt and knee-high boots.

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The “Anti-Hero” singer entered the stadium in a golf cart alongside her parents, Andrea and Scott Swift, as well as other family and friends.

Kelce recently hinted on The Pat McAfee Show that Swift would be in attendance, adding to the growing speculation that her presence is a good-luck charm for the Chiefs. In the 20-something games Swift has attended, the team boasts a stellar 17-3 record.

Since beginning her relationship with Kelce in 2023, Swift has been a frequent visitor at Chiefs games, including the 2024 Super Bowl, which saw Kansas City take home the championship. Just before Christmas, she was spotted at Arrowhead Stadium in a chic, furry red coat.

On Friday (Jan. 17), Swift was seen dining with her parents at Nobu Downtown in New York City, wearing a sleek all-black ensemble.

Kelce recently spoke about his relationship with Swift on the Stephen A. Smith Show. When asked about it, the 35-year-old tight end said, “I’m enjoying all aspects of life, that’s for damn sure, man.” He added, “Me and Taylor are happy and I couldn’t be happier to have that confidence and that comfort off the field and all the support I could ever ask for stadium.”

The NFL star, who has been playing for the NFL for about 12 years, also addressed his future with the Chiefs, revealing that Swift is fully supportive of his career.

“She’s fully encouraging me to enjoy playing this game,” the New Heights podcaster said of the singer. “She loves coming to Arrowhead and coming to the games and cheering for me.”

“So I got all the support in the world to keep chasing these dreams,” he continued. “I think personally, that’s the beauty of being in a very strong relationship is that you get that support to be able to come in and focus on your craft.”

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